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What's the longest break you've taken from geocaching?

I'm not naming names, but a cacher I know hasn't found one since November. I'm not doing much better. Yeah, it's partly the time of year, partly other obligations getting in the way of the fun stuff, and maybe it's just been time for a little break. I do know that I am really looking forward to the next time we take off for a day of caching. It's been too long...

We don't cache too often in the winter just because we're not really set up for it. We're not huge fans of GRCs and lamp post caches, although we do them from time to time. Last summer, other things got the best of our time but we're in hopes of doing some caching on the days we have off together. We're slowing down considerably from when we started but JustPJ66 and I are not quitting.

According to GC.com stats. Mine was for 106 days the year I started. From November to the end of February. I grabbed my first cache of 2004 on Feb 29th netting me that first leap day cache. Not knowing I would want that later on. Since then I have been quite steady I guess.

Sometimes life gets in the way. In 2008/2009, that happened to us and we went 173 days without a find. We still stayed active in the forums and paid attention to what was going on, but never made it out to get a cache. So in 2011/2012 we were working on the 366 challenge and the 100 day in a row challenge, we decided to up the ante and cached for 173 days consecutively, So our longest slump now matches out longest streak.

Wow, never realized this until this thread. After one of my back surgeries we went 202 days without caching. That's sad. We don't cache as hard as many others do, but that is a long stretch. We need to do better. Speaking of which, the sun is bright, the snow is melting, hmmm.........